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Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Is it true that our brain is the control center for our entire body? Yes! Our brain directs our thoughts, movements, organs, and emotions--mostly without us even noticing! Inside you'll find: information about how your nervous system works to keep you up and running ; photos, detailed diagrams, a timeline--and tips for taking good care of your body ; true facts that will shock and amaze you!
7) Neuromancer
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Case, a burned out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system.
Author
Publisher
Quantum Reflex Integration, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Primitive reflexes play an important role in the development of the neurological system in all aspects of our cognition, behavior, and movement. They affect our quality of life, determine our potential, and even our happiness. For children with disabilities, a group of unintegrated or undeveloped reflexes can not only affect their ability to learn but also play a large part in other neurological conditions, such as autism and cerebral palsy. In The...
Author
Publisher
New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A neuroscientist recounts his efforts to overcome administrative and behavioral hurdles to train his dogs to sit still during an MRI scan, an effort that produced evidence about canine empathy and the human-dog bond.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Overview: In the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, self-contained and completely separate from the body's immune system. But over the past twenty years, neuroimmunologist Michal Schwartz, together with her research team, not only has overturned this misconception but has brought to light revolutionary new understandings of brain health and repair. In this book Schwartz describes her research journey, her experiments, and the triumphs...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The Autoimmune Brain connects common brain health symptoms to changes in the immune system, in particular those triggered by bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections., In this book, Dr. David Younger explains his groundbreaking research and adds a new component: how traumatic stress (whether physical or emotional) and genetics affect this same triad as inextricable factors in initiating disease and brain health symptoms... His diagnostic techniques...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life. If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached surgeons, this ... brutally honest account will make you think again
Author
Publisher
A Perigee Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Offering a bold new understanding of the causes of such disorders as autism, ADHD, Asperger's, dyslexia, and OCD, an effective drug-free program addresses both the symptoms and causes of conditions involving a disconnection between the left and right sides of the developing brain, with customizable exercises, behavior modification advice, nutritional guidelines, and more. --Publsiher's description.
16) The human body
Series
Publisher
New Dimension Media
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Students will learn introductory concepts about the human body.
The brain & the nervous system: Viewers learn about the brain, spinal cord and nerves, as well as the sensory, motor, and associative neurons that transmit electrical impulses throughout the body.
The digestive & the excretory system: Discover how the digestive system breaks down food to be absorbed into the bloodstream, and how the excretory systerm removes waste products from the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
MND (motor neurone disease or motor neuron disease) or ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a condition which relentlessly destroys the nerves that control the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow while leaving the intellect and senses generally unaffected.This Speaking from experience DVD offers offer first-hand accounts from people who have experienced motor neuron disease. It was produced in partnership with the MND VIC....
Author
Publisher
[Medinform Pub.]
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
New 2010 Edition with over 100 extra pages of information! Gut and Psychology Syndrome provides the information you need to heal a damaged digestive system. The perfect book for anyone suffering from Autism, Dyslexia, Depression, Dyspraxia, ADD, ADHD, Schizophrenia, and any other condition that has a link with gut dysbiosis.
20) The quiet boy
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk - still in practice but a shell of his former self - is hired to defend Wesley Keener's father when he is charged with murder...
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